Hi everyone,

I feel a bit silly asking that, but it's a genuine question. I have only used graphics cards for gaming purposes so far, hence the newbie question.

I have an old Nvidia GTX 1060 that I would like to repurpose for BOINC, but I am running Fedora 34 server and I do not have a GUI, no X server etc..

I am basically running BOINC on docker containers on that server, and I obviously didn't install a desktop environment because there was no need.

Now that I have been poking around BOINC and docker for a few months, I would like to use the GPU in docker containers to increase performance. I know I need to enable PCIPassThrough, and I will get to that later, but before I start, I am trying to find out if I absolutely need a graphical desktop to use the GPU?

Thanks

No you don't need a graphics desktop but you may need to install proprietary drivers for the card.

@Dave thanks !

while you dont need the X server to run computation, you will need Xserver if you want fan control or overclocking control.

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